1. CS 450/550 Operating Systems Loc & Time: MW 1:40pm-4:20pm, 101 ENG
Instructor: Prof. Xiao-bo (Joe) Zhou
Office: 176 Engineering
Phone: (o)
Fax:
CS450/550
Office Hours:
F 1:00pm – 1:40pm, 4:20pm-5:40pm, 176 ENG
By appointment ( preferred)

2. What is “Operating System”?
Exploits the hardware resources of one or more processors
Provides a set of services to system users
Manages secondary memory and I/O devices

3. Objectives
In depth understanding of internals and design principles of modern operating systems, some fundamental concepts, and multithread programming

4. Textbooks Required: Modern Operating Systems Reference:
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
2nd Edition, Prentice Hall
ISBN
Reference:
POSIX Thread Programming Tutorial
Other materials
Course homepage:

5. Course Outline Introduction to OS and UNIX Process and Scheduling
Thread and Multi-threading
Pthreads Programming
IPC and Synchronization
Concurrency and Deadlocks
Memory Management
I/O Management
File Systems

6. Prerequisites No? CS206, CS 208, and CS 420/520
Computer architecture and orga.
Knowledge of high-level language C/C++
Knowledge of UNIX systems
Linux account in Lab 149
No?

7. Required Work Homework (about 3-4 times)
Midterm (Oct 13, Fri., 1:40- 3:40pm, E101)
Final Exam (Dec 15, Fri., 1:40-4:10pm, E101)
All exams are close book, close notes; but one double-side handwriting 8.5 * 11in sheet allowed!
Reading Assignments
Projects
About 3 team projects
Teaming policy

8. Grading Policy CS450/550 In-class Disc./Atte. 4% 4% HW 10% 10%
Projects 36% 36%
Midterm 20% 20%
Final Exam 30% 30%
Last day to drop: Friday, Nov 3, 2006

9. Grading Scale A 90 ~ 100 A- 87 ~ 90 B+ 84 ~ 87 B 80 ~ 84 B- 75 ~ 80
C+ 70 ~ C ~ C ~ 65
D ~ E below 55
At least 60% of projects value to qualify the use of the grading scale to pass the course

10. My Teaching Philosophy
Fostering a desire to learn
let you know the underlying purpose and applications of what are being taught
enthusiastic teaching
Communicating
interactive: learn by examples and illustrations
emphasize questioning and participating
Treating fairly …

11. Student-centered Culture
All A
No failure
Fairness
Inter-dependent Success

12. Your Responsibilities
Attend all lectures on time
Taking notes
Come to office hours if any questions
Making additional appointments if necessary
Turn in projects & homework on time
LATE SUBMISSION : 30% of value/day!
Attend exams as scheduled
NO MAKE-UP EXAMS ! Exceptions…
WHY STRICT RULES ?
FAIRNESS !

13. ANY QUESTIONS?